Category: O

Medical care that requires that a person stay in the hospital only during his or her treatment.  

Ovo-lactovegetarian is the type of vegetarian who will consume plant foods, dairy products, and eggs.  

Overuse is a condition of excessive overloading of fitness activities, resulting in nagging injuries. It often means doing too much, too soon- before the body is ready. The body and muscles must be given time to adapt gradually to new demands with gradual overloading. Injuries that result from violating the principle of overload by overdoing.…

Overpronation is a condition in which the foot rolls inward excessively on contact with the ground during walking, jogging, or running.  

Optimal stress is the point at which stress is intense enough to motivate and physically prepare us to perform optimally yet not intense enough to cause the body to overreact or sustain harmful effects.  

Opportunistic diseases are produced by common bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi that surround but do not usually have the opportunity to infect people with healthy immune systems. If a person is infected with HIV and enough of the immune system is destroyed, that person will be more susceptible to unusual infections such as pneumocystis carinii…

Omega-3 is a polyunsaturated fat that is prevalent in fish. Omega-3 fatty acids inhibit atherosclerosis and can reduce blood cholesterol levels.  

Occupational dimension is the dimension of wellness that entails the ability to integrate skills, interests, and values that will heighten job satisfaction. Being able to identify a “well” work environment and balancing work time and personal leisure time are important skills in the occupational dimension.  

A modern version of an ancient instrument for divination and communication with supposed spirit entities. The modern Ouija Board was invented by Elijah Bond in 1892. Its name was created from the French and German words for yes, oui and ja. It represented an improvement over the planchette, a similar spirit communication instrument that had…

A shower of stones, of meteoric origin, that fell near the village of Orgueil, near Toulouse in the south of France, on the night of May 14, 1864. The stones were of the carbonaceous chondrite type, and about 20 were collected for examination. They were found to contain hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen in a material…